Community Meeting on Suspension Concerns

Tuesday, May 15 – 6:00 – 8:00PM

The Belle Center, 104 Maryland St. 

Join members of the community as well as members of the Common Council, the Partnership for Public Good, and, of course, Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education to discuss what can be done to finally end out-of-school suspension for non-violent incidents!

For more information and to sign up for this event, visit the website below

http://action.citizenactionny.org/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=35811

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“We need a policy change.  We need to stop out of school suspensions for non-violent incidents.  It has been 19-months since Jawaan has been killed and nothing has been happening.”

–Brian Trzeciak, an education organizer with Alliance for Quality Education/Citizen Action of New York.

Over the past months, parents, students, and community members have been fighting to pass a new school suspension resolution in Buffalo that would halt out-of-school suspension for non-violent offenses. In Buffalo, 1 out of every 5 students receives out-of-school suspension, whereas the the New York state average is 1 out of 20 students.

FULL REPORT

AQE has released a report exhibiting the harmful effects of out-of-school suspension on students who commit non-violent offenses.

JAWAAN DANIELS Student Safety Resolution

Follow the progress online:

Aug. 30 – Buffalo Schools Ask to Change Suspension Policy

Oct. 6 – Suspensions Up So Far This Year in Buffalo

Oct. 26 – OpEd: Non-violent Incidents Don’t Merit Suspension

Jan. 9 – Parents Decry School Suspension Policy (WIVB, 4) 

Jan. 11 – Out-of-school Suspension Controversy Continues (YNN) 

Jan. 11 – Frustrations Over Suspension Policies Continue (Buffalo News) 

Jan. 12 – Demanding New Suspension Policy for Non-violent Offenses (WBFO, 88.7) 

Jan. 12 – Rally to End School Suspension Policy (YNN)

Jan. 13 – Anger Growing Over Suspension Policy (WNED, 970) 

Jan. 25 – Buffalo Students Suspended Every 3 Minutes (WKBW) 

Jan. 25 – Suspension Demonstration at School Board Meeting (YNN)

Jan. 26 – Board Decides Not to Take Vote on Dixon Offer (Buffalo News)

Feb. 6 – Reduce Suspensions: Dixon’s proposed changes in policy should help keep students in school (Editorial, Buffalo News)

Feb. 7 – Teachers Weigh in on Policy for School Suspensions (Buffalo News)

Feb. 8 – School Board Asked to Continue Working on Suspension Policy (YNN)

Feb. 20 – School Board Considers Changes to Public Comment Policy (Channel 2, WGRZ)

Feb. 21 – School Board Seeking to Limit Public Comment (Buffalo News)